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It's no secret that I love the writings of Eugene Peterson. I was scouring through Christianity Today's web-site looking for an article on another topic altogether when I ran into this 1999 article by Eugene Peterson entitled "To the Suburban Churches of America." As a pastor of a basically suburban church, all that I can …
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I mentioned this a few weeks back in brief form, but for those of us who give strong attention to the topic of discipleship in the church, I wanted to draw attention to a very helpful resource.Brian Hofmeister, a friend and Pastor of Spiritual Formation at Christ's Church in Albany, NY, offers an extremely helpful …
Philip Yancey, that most exquisite of evangelical writers, has an excellent, brief article on sin and brokenness that I read this morning. Yancey's take on things connects deeply with me. The connection between sin and brokenness at both the personal and social level is one that I have spent a lot of time pondering. (You …
One area that the emerging church struggles with , it seems, is how to consider evangelism. There is a tendency to downplay or be particularly cautious about up-front evangelistic efforts. The reasons for this are many: reacting against over-zealous evangelism in the evangelical church that had no regard for people as individuals, a misappropriation of …
You'll want to watch this BMW advert about innovation merely for the enjoyment of watching the kinetic sculptures that Theo Jansen is able to make. This is not only enjoyable, but a moving picture of what innovation is all about.Jansen says:Always I strive to push the boundaries of what we know and what seems possible …
Matthew Erickson 